GTX 280 vs 8800 GTX - 18 Months of Innovation

Posted By: Michael Thomas - 04:32:24 Thu, July 03, 2008

Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures & BioShock

Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures

AoC is one of those sword and sorcery MMORPGS. On a personal
note I didn’t like playing it, but when I was playing it I had a very hard time
stopping.If you want to know more check
out the game’s official site or the AoC Wiki.

Here are the settings that I used in all my
testing for AoC:

You may have noticed that the minimum FPS reading is 0 for
each card and setting. That’s because the game basically “pauses” at 0 FPS
after I press the button that tells Fraps to begin recording FPS information.At 1600x1200 the GTX 280 is about 63% faster
than the 8800 GTX and at 1920x1080 the GTX 280 is a full 93% faster. For those
of you who want to play this game on a nice high resolution widescreen at high
settings (the game is beautiful), the GTX 280 is a major improvement over the
8800 GTX.

BioShock

Most of you probably already know what BioShock is all
about. Those of you that do not can
read all about it here. All you really need to know is that the game is
freaking fantastic and it is the most fun that I have had in a long time. I am
hoping to see something about BioShock 2 at PAX this year. I will be sure to
let you guys know if I do. If you need a taste of insane underwater adventure you
can get this award winning game for only $29.99 on Steam.

Here are the settings that I used in all my testing for
BioShock:

I am not sure how or why it happened, but I got more FPS
with the 8800 GTX at 1920x1080 than I did at 1600x1200. The maximum FPS
measurement was lower at 1920, but the average and minimum were higher.I checked all my settings and such, but
everything was the way it was supposed to be. Chalk it up to Chaos Theory I
guess.

At 1600x1200 the GTX 280 is 88% faster and at 1920x1080 the
280 is 69% faster. If you look at the results of the GTX 280 across the two
resolutions, you can see that the GTX 280 performed almost as well at 1920 as
it did at 1600. Nice!